The Not So Loving Side of Gentle Parenting: A Biblical Plea to Parents
A new Trojan horse took baby steps into the nursery and has now launched big steps into the church family—“Gentle Parenting.” It is likely this novel parenting philosophy has been adopted by families in your church body. This book will (1) characterize and define what Gentle Parenting is (2) critique it by comparing and contrasting it with the Holy Scriptures, (3) call believers back to raising their children in truth, and then (4) carefully consider the essential need to rely solely upon the sufficiency of Scripture in parenting. Parenting is a blessed stewardship believers are called to carry out for God’s glory in His Word.
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The parenting models of modern psychology are, quite simply, bankrupt to the core. What we need in our day is a return to the authority and sufficiency of Scripture in matters of family life, childrearing, and discipline. Above all, our children must understand that they have violated God’s law and that they need the gospel. Biblical parenting, then, is gospel parenting. By focusing on biblical authority, the paradigm of God as the perfect Father, the centrality of family worship, and the necessity of getting to the heart, Miller ably critiques gentle parenting and offers instead the wise, practical, and loving model of God’s Word.
—Dr. Joel R. Beeke, Chancellor of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary and Author of Parenting by God’s Promises
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